NASA’s Mars Study Capability Team (MSCT) is developing a reusable Mars hybrid transportation architecture in which both chemical and solar electric propulsion systems are used in a single vehicle design to send crew and cargo to Mars. This paper presents a new integrated framework that combines Earth departure/arrival, heliocentric trajectory, Mars orbit reorientation, and vehicle sizing into a single environment and solves the entire mission from beginning to end in an effort to find a globally optimized solution for the hybrid architecture.
End to End Optimization of a Mars Hybrid Transportation Architecture
2019 AAS/AIAA Astrodynamics Specialist Conference ; 2019 ; Portland, ME, United States
2019-08-11
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English